This app helps user’s to keep fit and on a diet. The app will suggest what should you eat at breakfast, lunch etc, based on your provided data. You can create your own meals and app consist of a builtin specialist which keeps you on your diet.
This was my 2nd project as a UX designer. I learnt a great deal from this project how to design how to think like a user etc. I enjoyed working on it.
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Competitors Research
User analysis
User Personas
Information Architecture
Designs
Maximum 4 - 5 months needed to handover the designs and everything
The goal and aim for this project was to thoroughly analyse the user and what are the users actual problems facing on the other diet competitors apps that we can really solve. Diet market is quite huge currently as there are a-lot of competitors already in this field. We were focusing solely on users and improving the flow and diet apps for them.
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Understanding user's real problems
Integrating a AI feature
Understanding how can the UX be improved
This was one of my first projects I worked on as a UX designer. I was always under the care of my mentor. He helped me through the process. I was working on this project from scratch
I started this project with the help of my mentor, understanding the users looking at the competitors as well and understanding the user problems while using a diet app. Looking at couple of competitors and what they are offering and how they are offering.
First step of any UX design process is to empathize, which means discovering what the end user needs. Keeping the end user mind I conduct user interviews and user research to paint a clear picture of who the end users are and what challenges they face, and came up with some personas. Keep the user's front and center.
Persona # 1
Persona # 2
During this phase I also did some of the secondary research. Which led me to some good numbers of competitors who are doing the same thing as us and some additional data that i found during my research was really helpful, and some things we can fix which they didn't do.
Listing down some of the competitors i found:
Nutrients
MyFitnessPal
MyNetDiary
Based on all the research and user interviews and the personas created I was able to find some pain points or user problems which they face while working on their diets.
Some problems user face:
Apps don't usually tell them what to eat while you are on diet
Some feature that would keep you engage and a AI you can talk to about your diet plan
Keeping in mind these user problems I was able to create good designs.
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With so many solutions in my mind but first I need to understand the user flows and the whole structure of the app/website. If there is some complex task which users need to perform I need to have that flow figured out first. I created a IA information architecture a high level structure of the app.
App Information Architecture (IA)
Creating this IA allowed me to understand how the whole apps works. What would be the user journey and what problems user would face while using the app and what are the complex problems that I need to focus on from the start.
All my hard work on all the other phases of design thinking process allowed me to create a UX & UI of the MDIET much better and it makes me feel confident on my design that this would work and users will be pleased to use the app and it will also get the job done.
Prototype: https://projects.invisionapp.com/share/TZ7ZC0QCR#/screens/174426928
App Prototype # 1
App Prototype # 2
App Prototype # 3
Working on this diet app made me understand more about users, what is the process of design thinking frame work and how can I achieve good designs which are enjoyable, easy to use and gets the job done.
